Events

Please join us for a panel on transnational corporations' abuse of the
human right to water in the forms of privatization, deprivation and
contamination. Building connections between communities battling for clean,
affordable and accessible public water around the globe, we will discuss
the dangerous impact of corporate abuse and offer a way forward to ensure
the fulfillment human right to water through the treaty on corporate abuse
and human rights under negotiation.

Please join us for a panel on transnational corporations' abuse of the
human right to water in the forms of privatization, deprivation and
contamination. Building connections between communities battling for clean,
affordable and accessible public water around the globe, we will discuss
the dangerous impact of corporate abuse and offer a way forward to ensure
the fulfillment human right to water through the treaty on corporate abuse
and human rights under negotiation.

The rising power and extended reach of corporations in the current era
of globalisation and extreme inequality, is an urgent challenge
confronting women and oppressed peoples. Corporate power impacts gender
justice, women’s rights and lives through its influence on policies that
shape the global economy.

After years of constant call from civil society that culminated in the
creation of the Treaty Alliance and our joint statement calling for a
treaty to address corporate human rights violations, to be established
through an open-ended intergovernmental working group, in June 2014, the
UN Human Rights Council initiated the journey to negotiate a binding
treaty.

AWID and WILPF are part of the Treaty Alliance and would like to share
and hear what a feminist treaty on Transnational Corporations and other
Business Enterprises with regards to Human Rights would look like.

Organisers: AWID and WILPF

Panelists

Moderator: Patita Tingoi – AWID

Speakers:

Maria Munoz – WILPF

Emem Okon – Niger Delta

Maria Eugenia – Ecuador

Annie Matundu Mbambi – WILPF DRC

*This is an event of the AWID Forum: Costa do Saouípe, Bahia, Brazil
8-11 September 2016
*

Get inspired by, and share with others, the CSO Treaty advocacy activities already taking place in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe!

1b. Mobilization in Geneva

Treaty Alliance members are preparing for a week of mobilization in Geneva, with participation and oral statements in the 2nd IGWG session, case studies, side events, parallel events, media events. An update will be shared in September.

As stated in the IGWG mandate, during its 2nd session discussions will continue on the principles, scope and content of the Treaty.

(Negotiations will start during the 3rd session in 2017, when a text is expected to be presented).

It is likely that the work programme will continue to address the issues present in the 1st session:

-Scope: Coverage of the Instrument: TNCs and other Business Enterprises: concepts and legal nature in International Law

-Scope : Human rights to be covered under the Instrument with respect to activities of TNCs and other business enterprises

-Content: Obligations of States to guarantee the respect of human rights by TNCs and other business enterprises, including extraterritorial obligations

-Content: Enhancing the responsibility of TNCs and other business enterprises to respect human rights, including prevention, mitigation and remediation

-Content: Legal liability of TNCs and other business enterprises: What standard for corporate legal liability and for what conduct?

-Content: Building National and international mechanisms for access to remedy, including international judicial cooperation, with respect to human rights violations by TNCs and other business enterprises. -The OHCHR accountability and remedy project

Ensuring the first session of the IGWG on Human Rights, TNCs and other
Business addresses environmental crimes and systemic human rights
violations by Transnational Corporations (TNCs), the impact they have
on affected communities and ecosystems, as well as the legal
possibilities to bring TNCs to court for these crimes.

Interpretation in English and Spanish will be available.
Sandwiches & beverages will be served.

Ensuring that diverse social movements affected by the activities of TNCs and other businesses bring their views, perspectives, and proposals to the debates to be held during the first session of the IGWG on Human Rights, TNCs and other Businesses.

*The meeting will start with a short film on MIFEE *
Light lunch will be provided

The Government of Indonesia launched the MIFEE program (*Merauke
Integrated Food Estate and Energy*) in Papua as producer of food for
Indonesia. It is planned as the biggest food estate in Asia, covering a
total area of 1.2 million hectares. A large portion of this land consists
of primary forests, savannah, and swamplands, which serve as the areas of
hunting and food gathering of the Papuan indigenous peoples. The implementation
of MIFEE has resulted in serious human rights violations that done by
Corporations and certified by the state. This include the alienation of
Papuan indigenous peoples from their environment and they have been
expelled from their indigenous territories where they live in for
generations.

*The purpose of the side event is to: *

*Bring the MIFEE issue to the global arena and make a specific
link with Corporate Crime *

*Provide a clearer picture corporate crime in order to
management of natural resources and cause poverty and violence against
humanitarian*

Make the link with *the problems in Indonesia and the need for
a binding treaty at the UN on Businesses* and Human Rights